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Leader Local Sports Round-Up - Aug. 8

PIQUA — The Minster boys golf team enters this season with a roster without much varsity experience, but the Wildcats showed on Monday that they still have plenty of talent.

Minster emerged from the season’s first tune-up invitational with a victory. The Wildcats fired a team score of 318 to win the Scott Homan Invitational at th Piqua Country Club on Monday.

Austin Fischer led the way for Minster, shooting a 75. Fischer is the just one of two returning letterwinners on the Wildcat roster this fall. After averaging 39.6 shots per nine holes last fall, he’s the leader of the group.

“Other than Austin Fischer, who is a four-year varsity player, we are pretty inexperienced,” Minster head coach Dave Borchers said before the season. “We are pretty inexperienced in varsity competition, but our strong JV team from last year is stepping up nicely.”

Minster lost several pieces to graduation from last year’s team that were a part of the 2009 state championship — including Craig Purpus, who finished fourth individually at state a season ago.